Mabus Point is a point on the coast of Antarctica lying just south of the

Haswell Islands The Haswell Islands are a group of rocky coastal islands lying off Mabus Point, Antarctica, and extending about seaward. They were charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson (1911–14), who applied the name "Rookery ...

, marking the eastern limit of

McDonald Bay McDonald Bay is an open bay in the Davis Sea, wide at its entrance between Adams Island and the Haswell Islands, lying immediately west of Mabus Point on the coast of Antarctica. It was charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Do ...

. It stands 1 nautical mile(2 km) Northwest of

Morennaya Hill Morennaya Hill () is a hill rising to , standing southwest of Mabus Point on the coast of Antarctica. It was discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, 1911–14, and was mapped by the Soviet expedition of 1956, who n ...

."Morennaya Hill". ''

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''.

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. Retrieved 2013-11-07. It was first charted by the

Australasian Antarctic Expedition The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had been inspired to lead his own venture by his experiences on Ernest ...

, 1911–14, under

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...

, and was recharted by G.D. Blodgett in 1955 from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy

Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

, 1946–47. The point was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for Lieutenant Commander Howard W. Mabus, U.S. Navy, executive officer of the

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, who was instrumental in providing close support to U.S. Navy

Operation Windmill Operation Windmill (OpWml) was the United States Navy's Second Antarctica Developments Project, an exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–1948. This operation was a follow-up to the First Antarctica Development Project known as O ...

parties in establishing astronomical control stations along this coast, 1947–48. Mabus Point subsequently became the site of the Soviet scientific station, Mirny. Ob' Passage is a passage 0.4 nautical miles (0.7 km) wide between Mabus Point and nearby Khmary Island.

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Headlands of Queen Mary Land {{QueenMaryLand-geo-stub

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